Welted shoe and welt therefor



Patented June 14,1927.

g f 1,632,768 UNIT-ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

kABRAHAM DVILNSKY, 0F BROKTON,`MASSAGHUSETTS.

wiinfrnnsiion AND WELT friinnnron.

v Apiiiication ined May 5,

The object of this invention is to lprovide a Welted shoe bottom with an exposed edge of greaterV thickness kthan the combined thickness of the usual welt and the outsole, without the expense attending the employment of the f middle sole heretofore, used.

I attain this object by securing to the usual welt before itis incorporated in the shoe, a thickening strip which is narrower than the welt, thickens the outseamreceiving outer edge portion of the welt without thickening the inner edge portion thereof, so that -the thickening strip is wholly outside the inseam stitches, thickens the shoe bottom at its exposed marginal portion only, and is adapted to receive the usual outseam` stitches.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,' n n Figure 1 shows in perspective a portion of a Welt provided with a thickening strip in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary sectional view, showing portions of the insole, upper, and

f welt of a welted shoe, together with the thickening strip, in the relative positions these parts occupy during the operation of forming the inseam stitches, and showing also a portion of the curved Welt sewingmachine needle, inserted in the welt, upper, and insole,without entering the thickening strip.

Figure 3 is ay fragmentarysectional view, showing the welt united by inseam stitches, to the upper and insole, and the outsole united by outseam stitches to the welt and thickening strip.

I The drawings are on an enlarged scale.

rlhek same reference characters indicate the saine parts in all of the figures.L i

In the drawings, 12 designates a welt of ordinary form, having. the usual stitchreceiving groove 13, in the inner edge'portion of its inner face. The weltis united to the lip 14 of the insole 15, and'to the edge 192e. serial N6. 106,801. Y

the welt, and from the inseam stitch-receiving groove 13.,

The arrangement is such that during the operation of securing the welt to the upper andinsole, the bevelled edge 20 clears, or is marginal portionofthe inner face of the outsole 23, and is united, with the welt, to the outsole by the usual outseam stitches 21. The strip surrounds the layer 22 of bottom filler between the outer and inner 'soles and thickens the shoe bottom at its exposed kmarginal portion only, so that the shoe bottom is thickened at vless expense than by the usual middle sole, coextensive with the outer sole. The strip 19 `is attached to the welt before the incorporation of the latter in the shoe, and isincorporated with the welt, and

`not by a separate operation.

The filling strip may be of any suitable iexible material, as leather or rubber.

I claim: l

1. shoev welt having aninseam stitchengaging inner edge portion, an outseam stitch-engaging `outer edge portion, land a thickening strip secured to the inner face of the welt flush with the outer edge of the latter, the thickening strip being narrower than the welt, so that the strip is wholly L outside the inseam stitch-engaging portion of the welt, said strip having an outseain i stitch-engaging portion bearing on the out seam stitch-engaging portion of the welt, andan inner edge formed to clear the path of a curved needle.

2. A shoe welt having a stitch-receiving groove at the inner edge portion of its inner face, and a thickening` strip secured vto said inner face, and flush at its` outer edge with the outer edge of the welt, the thickening strip being `narrower thantlie welt, so that groove, the inner edge of the` thickening strip being beveled, to clear the path ofa curved inseam stitch-forming needle, and including a portion of uniform thickness between the outer and inner edges, adapted toreceive outseainstitches engaged with the welt.

In testimonyy whereof I have affixed my signature.

ABRAHAM DviLNsKY.-

`it is wholly outside the stitch-receiving ics 

